Donna Laframboise

@LeighBrowne5 @QuestionableFrt @YukonStrong @JeffEvely Thanks for posting this court decision re Nova Scotia banning people from walking in the forest last summer.

@QuestionableFrt @YukonStrong @JeffEvely jccf.ca/wp-content/upl…

On one hand I am ecstatic @JeffEvely won his court case. On the other, how heartbreaking it is that Canadians have to celebrate being allowed to go into their own forest.😢 We shouldn't have to fight these battles everything about Canada is wrong

@WEschenbach Thanks, Willis :-)

@NOconsensus Well done as always, Donna. w.

Excellent read.

You’re correct, Dave. Grok can only search online material. It has no ability to evaluate the strength & breadth of what’s happening at the grassroots, out in the real world. I spent time in Alberta in early February. Visiting numerous petition signing locations, talking to folks directly, in the small towns as well as in big city town halls. There’s something unusual going on. x.com/noconsensus/st…

@thecritcomp @BillboardChris Grok's answers are only accurate to what it can search. Year old polls and MSM articles. It can't do door to door canvassing and the polls rely on curated samples and even modelled the rural support to 30% which is bull if you've ever been to rural AB.

Grok says the chance of Alberta becoming independent is near 0%. I think they’d be better off independent, but leaving isn’t a simple matter of a yes vote in a referendum. From Grok: Current public support for Alberta independence is a minority position (typically 25–30% in recent polls), though it has reached a 5-year high amid ongoing frustrations with federal policies. A clear majority of Albertans (around 60–70%) consistently say they would vote to stay in Canada. Recent polling examples (as of early-to-mid 2026): • Pollara Strategic Insights (March 16–25, 2026, released early April): 27% of decided voters would vote to separate (a record high, up 7 points since December 2025). Another 15% of those planning to vote “remain” say they might switch to “yes” as a protest message to Ottawa, potentially pushing support as high as 42% in a referendum scenario. Among United Conservative Party (UCP) voters, it’s roughly split (55% separate vs. 45% remain). • Abacus Data (February 2026): 26% support independence; 64% oppose. • Angus Reid Institute (February 2026): 29% would vote to leave (only 8% definite; 21% leaning); 65% would vote to stay (57% definite). • Other polls (Ipsos, Research Co., Leger, Mainstream Research in Jan–March 2026) show similar ranges: 17–31% open to independence, with “committed” support dropping to ~15–16% once real-world economic and social costs are factored in. Support is higher among younger voters and UCP/federal Conservative supporters, but it remains far short of the clear majority needed for any realistic path forward. A citizen-led petition to force an independence referendum question has reportedly gathered enough signatures, but its path forward is now legally uncertain. Stay Free Alberta claims it surpassed the required ~177,732–178,000 valid signatures by late March 2026 (well before the May 2 deadline). If verified by Elections Alberta, Premier Danielle Smith has pledged to include the question on the provincial referendum ballot scheduled for October 19, 2026. However, First Nations groups have launched court challenges arguing the petition violates treaty rights and lacked consultation. A judge has paused signature verification pending review. If blocked, separatists may ask the provincial government to proceed anyway. Smith herself opposes full separation. She describes her position as favoring a “strong and sovereign Alberta within a united Canada” and is using the 2026 referendum mainly for other questions on immigration, constitutional changes, and provincial autonomy—not as a direct push for independence. Even if a referendum happens and a “yes” side somehow wins (which current polling makes unlikely), actual independence as a sovereign country is extremely improbable in the near term (realistically near 0% chance without a dramatic, sustained shift in sentiment and politics). Reasons include: • Legal hurdles: The 1998 Supreme Court of Canada Secession Reference and the federal Clarity Act require a “clear question” and “clear majority,” followed by good-faith negotiations with the federal government and other provinces. Unilateral secession is not possible, and constitutional amendments would be needed. • National opposition: Roughly 79% of all Canadians (including majorities outside Alberta) say they would block Alberta from leaving if given a vote. • Historical precedent: Quebec’s two referendums (1980 and 1995) failed despite higher support levels at the time, and even a narrow “yes” would trigger prolonged, uncertain negotiations. In short, the movement reflects real grievances (resource policy, carbon taxes, federal overreach), and it has energized separatist activism and a possible symbolic vote in October 2026. But polling, legal barriers, and political reality point to very low odds of Alberta becoming an independent country anytime soon. Most Albertans and Canadians prefer reform within Confederation over breakup.

This person explains that the Irish govt has agreed to a meeting with protesters, on day 4. The meeting will also include reps of third parties the protesters don’t respect, but at least there’s the potential for useful dialogue. Quick reminder: Canada’s truckers protested for 3 wks in in sub-zero weather in early 2022. The federal govt refused to meet with them. At all. No dialogue happened.

🇮🇪 The streets tonight. Tractors rolling, flags flying, our people standing tall. This is the fire of Ireland waking up and we’re not going anywhere. The fight for our homeland has begun. Hold the line. Stay strong. 💪🏻🫡

The Hills Are Alive 🇮🇪 Thousands of Vehicles on tonight's Donegal Fuel Protest Drive-Slow Convoy travelling here from Manor Motors to The Dry Arch Roundabout in Letterkenny. Well Done To Everyone That Showed Up To Support The Hard Working Irish People.

@jaycurrie Yes. I realized this the first time I experienced a tractor parade (all decked out in Christmas lights, just after dusk). There’s tons of no-fooling, huge machinery out there. In the hands of individuals.

Remember what I was saying about heavy machinery? 99% of it is in private hands. In Ireland and in Canada: x.com/Mick_O_Keeffe/…

@JoshDehaas Thank you, Josh, for this court reporting re Nova Scotia's province-wide ban on walking in the forest last summer (even forest on your own property). Fines of $29k, possible 6 months in jail.

And court is over for today. Back tomorrow!

I’m in Halifax this week where the @CDNConstFound is arguing that Nova Scotia’s extreme provincewide ban on being in the woods last summer was unreasonable and unconstitutional. Follow along here for updates from court 👇🏻

When Paul R Ehrlich was born, global average life expectancy was less than 40 years. When he died a few days ago at 93, it was 73.2 years and rising. When he was born, 31% of children died before they were five. Today, that figure is 3.7% and falling. Yet he spent most of his time on this planet telling us that this is a bad thing, and that things are getting worse. All of his prophecies failed. Yet the bad science and bad arithmetic underpinning his claims continued to be used by the weirdo UN environmental agencies, global environmental movement, and the Guardian -- the most spectacularly debunked pseudoscience in history continued to arm the arguments against making life better, and to deny people the opportunity of taking part in markets and industries, and enjoying health and wealth. The human consequences of it are incalculable. Yet such movements founded on his grim work believe that they are the nice guys who want to make the world a better place.

Europe's official grid authority has released its report on the nationwide blackout that hit Spain last year. And while the report treads carefully politically, its data make the cause clear. Wind and solar triggered the collapse. Within the first 80 seconds, Spain lost 2.5 GW of generation, around 10% of its national supply, with every MW of that early loss coming from renewables. Gas and hydro remained stable until the cascade was already underway. The report calls it an unprecedented speed of blackout. This was a textbook inverter chain failure, with renewables dropping so fast that the grid's stabilizers never had time to react. By midday, Spain's grid had virtually no inertia, nothing spinning fast enough to hold frequency steady. But to admit that outright would mean questioning Europe's green transition itself, something the report appears unable to do. So the event is officially described as "a rare local disturbance," rather than what it actually was... A systemic failure of weather-dependent power.

Is there a war on truckers? The people who move 72% of freight in America. The ones that have to hunt for a safe place to park. The one's who all too often have no place to go to the bathroom when making a delivery. In a regulatory system that hasn't applied the rules evenly. Competing for work against untrained labor that's flooded the market, compliments of your tax dollars. Where the customer sets the price. The first two hours are free. And nobody cares. Very eager to read @GordMagill's End of the Road from @C_and_C_Books.

This paragraph by C.S. Lewis, written in 1948, still hits hard: “If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”

@jaycurrie You’re right. The list is a long one & keeps growing. Topics the CBC can’t be trusted to cover fairly. What a mess. And what a waste :-(

This class solidarity was most evident in the response to the Trucker's Convoy or the lockstep endorsement of the COVID response including the lightly tested jabs, but it extends to "net zero" and "residential school "graves"" and genderwoo. 6/

@Travisdhanraj's testimony with respect to the CBC before a Commons Committee is important in itself and it confirms what a lot of us had always suspected about the built in bias of the mothercorp. 1/

@GordMagill @cjoseph23 Here's the Agreed Statement of Facts from that case, submitted to the court in January 2019: web.archive.org/web/2026030815…

I just watched this presentation myself this morning and it’s going to take me some time to calm down and organize my thoughts. There is so much going on here and I also want to be sensitive to @cjoseph23 and the Humboldt families but Good Lord what a mess. Infuriating.

Great photos

@stayfreealberta Some fabulous photography of everyday folk now being posted to this X account

Stay Free Calgary, Alberta March 07, 2026

Friend and fellow author Donna Laframboise, who wrote the wonderful “Thank You, Truckers!”, a lengthy tome about so many regular working class people who helped the Freedom Convoy along, weighs in with a review of my own book. Thanks Donna!

@GoTalkTruth It was so much fun doing this podcast! Thank you!